Air Force

The House Appropriations Committee cuts the Department of the Air Force’s nearly $256 million research and development request for Vanguard programs by almost $87 million, as the committee says that […]

The Boeing [BA] T-7A Red Hawk had its first engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) flight test on June 28 from St. Louis Lambert International Airport. The flight, which lasted about […]

Raytheon Technologies‘ [RTX] Collins Aerospace said last week at the Paris Air Show that it has conducted a lab test in Windsor Locks, Conn., of the Enhanced Power and Cooling […]

House GOP appropriators note that the U.S. Space Force fiscal year 2024 budget request is more than $30 billion–a $3.9 billion, 15 percent increase over last year’s enacted level, but […]

Last month, Northrop Grumman [NOC] flight tested a prototype of the company’s LN-351 modernized Global Positioning System (GPS) military code (M-code) capable receiver, Northrop Grumman said on June 27th. The […]

Gear that will allow boom operators on the Boeing [BA] KC-46A Pegasus tanker to continue their work in chemical and biological agent environments is a requirement that the U.S. Air […]

A significant step up in space domain awareness to counter China is a key focus for U.S. Space Command in the next several years. “One area that I think we […]

The U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC) at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio is planning to certify new self-protection materiel for Boeing [BA] KC-46 tankers with the Remote Vision System […]

Since fiscal 2018, Congress has added $1.6 billion to the U.S. Navy’s shipbuilding and conversion accounts for warship line items, including the Columbia-class attack submarines, to ramp up production through […]

The House Appropriations Committee’s version of the fiscal 2024 defense funding bill turns back the U.S. Air Force’s proposal to cancel the Advanced Engine Transition Program (AETP) and provides $150 […]